Museum Masters

Museum Masters Podcast is a podcast all about museums, museum studies, and museology from a fresh perspective! Your hosts are Mary Akemon and Allison Kopplin- two Americans making their way as emerging professionals in the museum field. Listen in to learn about the contemporary to the classic topics of museum studies!

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This week Museum Masters Pod comes to you with the second part of our dissertation series. Allison Kopplin speaks on her master's dissertation which examines museums and prison partnerships. Allison talks about how these partnerships are formed, the challenges they faces, and why more partnerships like the ones she examines are slow to grow.

We start off our two weeks of dissertation discussion with Mary Akemon, and her dissertation on how museums use YouTube. Mary does A LOT of talking about things like watch time, the FREE resources allocated by YouTube, and the pitfalls of museums not creating YouTube content for their visitors and online audiences. As always, please review and let us know any comment or suggestions!

Today we talk about the American Alliance of Museums and the Museum Association. Some of the questions we pose are about the resources provided and what we expect from these organizations if we plan to become paying members. Join us in the comments to discuss what you'd be interested in seeing, or what you love most about these types of memberships as professionals!

This one is a little all over the place but we hope you enjoyed it anyway! Check out our links below.

This week we talk about membership in the museum. What kinds of memberships exist? Should we, as museum professionals be reworking how we approach memberships? How much should they cost? Who do we need to be marketing to? We boast on Nina Simon, from the Museum 2.0 blog for helping us shape this discussion.

Museum Masters delves into the realm of LGBT exhibitions. Allison specifically lays out the process, focusing on extensive focus groups with allies and LGBT community members for a exhibition at the British Museum. Listen in to learn about the importance of including members of a minority community in development, and about how museums can make permanent and temporary exhibition more representative of the LBGT community.

Season 2 is a go! For our first episode we chat about the National Endowment for the Arts and the Humanities. What they are, how they function, and why they are in jeopardy. Allison and Mary sign off with some ways to contact your representatives and fight for the arts and history. Enjoy!

Allison and Mary are currently tackling applications for jobs! In this episode the pair discuss what they put on resumes, types of job descriptions they look for, and even the current state of the museum field hiring!

Are you currently looking for a job in museums or cultural institutions? Tell us about your experience!

Selfies and photography in Museums: Good or Bad? Allison and Mary discuss what selfies are, the use of SnapChat and price of Geo-filters, as well as the "Selfie Museum" and how visitors are using selfies to engage. Thanks for listening, and remember to review and comment!

Allison and Mary tackle the debate of having large, international, and sometimes not so ethical companies sponsor museum exhibitions! We talk specifically about BP and their partnerships with places such as Tate Modern and the British Museum. Disclaimer: We're sorry for the audio in this one, we had some mic troubles but figured the content was good enough that hopefully you all wouldn't mind!